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The writers of this blog are not music critics, and they don't consider a second (or third, fourth or fifth) mortgage to be a perfectly reasonable course of action to pay for front-row tickets, but despite being a whole lot more middle aged than
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The writers of this blog are not music critics, and they don't consider a second (or third, fourth or fifth) mortgage to be a perfectly reasonable course of action to pay for front-row tickets, but despite being a whole lot more middle aged than they were when they first put \x34Born in the U.S.A.\x34 or \x34The River\x34 down on the turntable, still feels like Bruce has something -- OK, a lot of things -- to say about our country and the way we live our lives, things that not a lot of other artists are saying. And whether he's talking about the knife that can cut this pain from your heart, the house that's waiting for you to walk in or what that flag flying over the courthouse means, he's nailing down feelings that are so universal that they can raise your spirits and break your heart at the same time. Plus, let¹s face it, the man rocks.

In October, Girlscreator and star Lena Dunham sold a book to Random House for $3.7 million. Now, Gawker has obtained and published Dunham's 66-page proposal - complete with illustrations!Photos: Everybody's posing nude! Check out Rihanna and other stars who've bared allThe book's structure is inspired by Helen Gurley Brown's Having It All and, judging by the proposal, it will allow readers the same deeply personal glimpse at Dunham that anyone who's seen her HBO comedy has become accustomed to.Here are a few memorable quotes from Dunham's million-dollar proposal:Check out celebrities' dramatic weight loss•"Every ice pop I ate, every movie I watched, every poem I wrote was tinged with a fearful loss."•"I went to my first Women's Action Coalition meeting at age three."•"Cassie was a very fat girl we knew who we had nicknamed fat Cassie because she also wasn't that nice."Check out Dunham's full proposal here.Does the book sound interesting to you?